Chair comments on women's state pension changes
22 November 2018
The Committee publishes a series of correspondence with Government and the WASPI campaign on changes to the state pension age for women, ahead of a Commons debate.
- Chair to Angela Madden, WASPI regarding Pension age equalisation day – 8.11.2018
- Frank Field to Guy Opperman regarding Pension age equalisation day – 8.1.2018
- Frank Field to Angela Madden regarding WASPI – 22.11.2018
- Angela Madden to Frank Field – 12.11.2018
- Chair to WASPI Glasgow and Lanarkshire – 22.11.2018
- Watch debate on Parliament TV: “State pension equalisation for women born in the 1950s” led by Patricia Gibson MP
Chair's comment:
Commenting on the correspondence, Committee Chair, Rt Hon Frank Field MP, said:
“Since the Committee published its report on this matter, I have received a couple of hundred letters from women who I believe have been put in a grotesquely disadvantaged position by the Government. All these letters have conveyed the hardship and sense of injustice felt by affected women, a number of whom have said that they want to leave work now, even if that meant a slightly reduced pension. I have sent letters, published this morning, to the Chairs of WASPI, WASPI Glasgow and Lanarkshire and the Minister, on this issue."
Here you can find full details of the Committee's previous work on Early drawing of state pension and Understanding the new State Pension
Further information
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